Rep. Christopher Lee, a married Republican congressman from New York, resigned from office Wednesday after a report surfaced that he sought dates with women on Craigslist, Fox News Channel reported.

“I regret the harm that my actions have caused my family, my staff and my constituents. I deeply and sincerely apologize to them all. I have made profound mistakes and I promise to work as hard as I can to seek their forgiveness,” Lee, said in a statement.

“The challenges we face in Western New York and across the country are too serious for me to allow this distraction to continue, and so I am announcing that I have resigned my seat in Congress effective immediately,” it continued.

Earlier Wednesday, Lee, a two-term congressman who represents New York’s 26th congressional district, refused to comment on a report from media gossip website Gawker that implied he had sent pictures of himself and emails to a Washington, D.C.-area woman he met on the classifieds website.

Lee told Fox News Channel that he had not seen the Gawker story, which featured a shirtless photo he allegedly sent to the woman, and an email in which he described himself as a “fit, fun, classy guy” who worked as a lobbyist in Washington.

“I gotta work this out with my wife,” Lee, who also has a young son, told Fox.

According to the Gawker report, Lee and the woman exchanged a series of emails in which Lee described himself as a divorced lobbyist.

The correspondence allegedly began when Lee responded to the woman who sought someone on Craigslist to prove that not all men on the site were “toads.”

“Hi, Hope I’m not a toad :) i’m a very fit fun classy guy. Live in Cap Hill area. 6ft 190lbs blond/blue,” he wrote. “39..Lobbyist. I promise not to disappoint.”

Lee then went on to tell the woman, who has yet to be identified, that his last date ended badly because the woman had lied about her appearance on the website.

“She was not as advertised. Lol…how do people think you aren’t going to figure it out once you see them in person,” he wrote.

The woman told Gawker she cut off contact with the two-timing representative after she Googled his name and realized what he had told her was not true.

A spokesperson for Lee initially denied the story, telling Gawker that his accounts had likely been hacked.

Later Wednesday, his office told Fox they were not yet able to comment on the matter.